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HassanF
HassanF

Reputation: 455

find and remove multiple file using linux command

I have a directory named classes which contains a lot of sub-directories - 

classes  
  |-security  
  |-registration  
  |-service  
 ....

Each of these directory contains a lot of java files and their compiled classes files. I want to remove all the class file.

Going to classes directory I can list out all the class file using find command - 

$ find . -name *.class

Is there any command in linux to remove all the classes file under the classes directory.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 3504

Answers (2)

Razib
Razib

Reputation: 11173

Use xargs with pipe lining - 

$ find . -name *.class | xargs rm *

Upvotes: 0

Thomas Dickey
Thomas Dickey

Reputation: 54583

The usual answer uses the -exec option of find:

find . -name "*.class" -exec rm {} \;

Be sure to quote the wildcard, to ensure that it is passed into find (rather than globbed by the shell, first).

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Upvotes: 1

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